This page presents the geographical name data for
Angle Peak in Antarctica, as supplied by the US military intelligence in electronic format, including the geographic coordinates and place name in various forms, latin, roman and native characters, and its location in its respective country's administrative division
Feature Name
(see definition):
Angle Peak
Feature Class
(see definition):
Summit
Country Code
(see definition): AQ (Antarctica)
Feature ID
(see definition):
457
Primary Latitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds
(see definition):
71° 45' 00" S
Primary Longitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds
(see definition):
062° 03' 00" W
Primary Latitude in decimal degrees
(see definition):
-71.75
Primary Longitude in decimal degrees
(see definition):
-62.05
Elevation
(see definition):
No data
Decision Year
(see definition):
01/01/1976
Description
(see definition):
A small but dominant peak that rises from one of the main spurs on the N side of Condor Peninsula. The feature stands close S of where Cline Glacier enters Odom Inlet, on the E coast of Palmer Land. Mapped by U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in 1974. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for J. Phillip Angle, of the Smithsonian Institution, who made bird life observations off the W coast of South America (1965) and Antarctic areas southward to Marguerite Bay, Antarctic Peninsula (1966). He collaborated with George E. Watson in writing Birds of the Antarctic and Sub-Antarctic, 1975.
Date Created
(see definition):
No data
Date Edited
(see definition):
No data
NOTE: The information regarding
Angle Peak in Antarctica on this page is published from the data supplied by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, a member of the Intelligence community of the Antarctica, and a Department of Defense (DoD) Combat Support Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of
Angle Peak information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about
Angle Peak should be addressed to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.